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What is/was your best can't put down book ever?

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spikemomma · 22/04/2010 13:25

What book keeps or has kept you reading into the night, when you're exhausted and just need to sleep! Tell me, tell me! x

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BigBadMummy · 22/04/2010 15:23

Well I have just finished "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and I couldn't put that down.

Can't really remember a book that I enjoyed quite so much before as I rarely get a chance to read these days!.

snugglejunkie · 22/04/2010 15:18

Have to admit to being a total Harry Potter freak until the series ended. For example: made DH queue with me at 1am at Borders in Santa Barbara on our honeymoon
I 'let' him go to some wine fair thingy the next day whilst I finished the book!

However I was also totally gripped by Vurt by Jeff Noon.

scuttles off to look up books already on this thread

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/04/2010 14:46

Oh, and Alan Clark's Diaries (the first ones).

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/04/2010 14:45

Ooh Wolf Hall. I read that at the weekend - it was truly gripping I thought. And very nasty.

Last unputdownable was The Little Stranger. A terrific read.

All time favourite were Phillip Pullman's troligy His Dark Materials. I read all three in one weekend. Fabulous, and I cried and cried at the end.

gramercy · 22/04/2010 14:42

Wolf Hall, Mrs Danvers? I must admit I'm struggling with it a bit, and I'm a voracious reader. My eyes keep glazing over, especially at the three-quarter page long description of Cardinal Wolsey's tapestry.

I think my favourite book ever is Rebecca (can't get away from the Mrs Danvers thing!). I raced through it in one sitting and had that rare moment when I turned the last page and... it was finished. And I genuinely hadn't seen I was at the end of the book.

I also love The Corrections. So very pertinent to those of us with aged parents.

I've just enjoyed Possession by AS Byatt; I came to it a bit late in the day but better late than never. I'm looking forward to read The Children's Room next.

itsybitsy08 · 22/04/2010 14:39

Oh and i recently discovered karin slaughter, couldnt put those down, loved them!

itsybitsy08 · 22/04/2010 14:37

I just finished tell no one the other day. Was supposed to be keeping it for holiday but couldnt wait and read it all in two nights! Im still tired now! It was good but i like some of his others even more!

bruffin · 22/04/2010 14:00

Tell No One - was the Harlan Coben one.

IndiMamaJones · 22/04/2010 13:59

Ooh MrsDanversBites have that upstairs and am waiting to read it

I couldn't put A Prayer for Owen Meany down when I first read it

bruffin · 22/04/2010 13:58

Another Stephen King - The Dead Zone and a Harlan Coben one which I can't remember the name of at the moment. It was his first stand alone book.

MrsDanversBites · 22/04/2010 13:55

Wolf Hall

Was loathe to put it down and re-enter the real world

StealthPolarBear · 22/04/2010 13:51

i have found in the woods by tana french to be the best for that recently

bellabelly · 22/04/2010 13:50

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly is my most recent one. It was FAB!

LostArtOfKeepingASecret · 22/04/2010 13:43

Another oldie - 'The Shinning'. I read it in one sitting on a stormy night, years ago. I was so scared that I didn't dare go upstairs to bed and spent all night shivering and shaking downstairs! I've never read a horror book since!

Portofino · 22/04/2010 13:37

The Thorn Birds - a long time ago though....

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